Metamorphosis, List #2 by Franz Kafka

adj. • No one would come in until the morning, so he had ample time to consider undisturbed how best to rearrange his life.

n. • His sole concern had been to do everything in his power to make the family forget as quickly as possible the business disaster which had plunged everyone into a state of total despair, so he had begun to work with special ardor.

v. [intrans] • Balking at the huge effort of pushing an armchair to the window, he would crawl up to the window sill and, propped up in the chair, lean against the window.

n. • It was his secret plan that she who loved music and could play the violin movingly should be sent next year to the conservatory.

n. • The traveling salesman, who is out of the office practically the whole year round, can so easily become the victim of gossip, contingencies, and unfounded accusations, against which he's completely unable to defend himself.

v. [trans] • The manager, who wanted to leave, must be detained, calmed down, convinced, and finally won over.

n. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION: an aptitude or talent for doing something • Without stopping to realize that he no idea what his new faculties of movement were, and without stopping to realize either that his speech had possibly - indeed, probably - not been understood again, he let go of the wing of the door and shoved himself through the opening.

n. • He hoped for marvelous, amazing feats from both the doctor and the locksmith.

n. • The money he had brought home every month had never been completely used up and had accumulated into a tidy principal, and they were delighted at this unexpected foresight and thrift.

adj. • For the first time that morning, he had a feeling of physical well-being, and he already believed that the final recovery from all his sufferings was imminent.

v. [trans] • The others now believed that there was something the matter with him and were ready to help him, which made him feel integrated into human society once again.

n. • Were all employees louts without exception that there wasn't a single loyal, dedicated worker among them?

adj. • It would be such a pity to deprive her of the life she had led until now, which had consisted of wearing pretty clothes, sleeping late, helping in the house, enjoying a few modest amusements, and above all playing the violin.

adj. • Admittedly he had been too absorbed recently in his newfangled crawling to bother as much as before about events in the rest of the house.

adj. • Gregor's eyes then turned to the window, and the overcast weather - he could hear raindrops hitting against the metal window ledge - completely depressed him.

n. • It must have been a month since his metamorphosis and there was certain ly no particular reason any more for his sister to be astonished at his changed appearance.

v. [trans] • Traveling salesmen are not well liked there, and no one has any particular reason to rectify this prejudice.

n. • Now he was cut off from his mother, who was perhaps near death through his fault, and tormented by self-reproaches and worry, he began to crawl over everything.

v. [trans] • That boy has nothing on his mind but the business that it's begun to rile me that he never goes out nights to have fun.

v. [trans] • He really didn't know what to salvage first, but then he saw hanging conspicuously on the wall the picture of the lady dressed all in furs and hurriedly crawled up on it so that no one would take away this picture.

adj. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION (ignore the vocabulary.com definition): extremely hot or intense • He slammed himself violently against the lower bedpost, and the searing pain he felt taught him that exactly the lower part of his body was the most sensitive.

n. • In the span of two or three evenings, he managed to carve a little frame that might have taken others many more nights.

adj. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION: enough, adequate • Two strong persons would have been completely sufficient to shove their arms under his arched back and scoop him off the bed.

n. • He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

v. [trans] • He had not fully utilized a few hours of the morning for the firm before he was driven mad by pangs of conscience for not being more productive.